J. Kromhout () Member committee on reproductive health effects and exposure to solvents

J. Kromhout () Member Editorial Board

J. Kromhout () Member Editorial Board

J. Kromhout () Member Editorial Board

J. Kromhout () Member Editorial Board

J. Kromhout () Member Editorial Board

J. Kromhout () Member IARC Working Group on burden of cancer caused by asbestos. Lyon, France, 23-24 April 2007 and 6-7 March 2008

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member International Advisory Board

J. Kromhout () Member of Working Group Trichloroethylene and some chlorinated agents

J. Kromhout () Member of Amine Reference Group

J. Kromhout () Member of Bitumen and some NitroPAHs Working Group

J. Kromhout () Member of External Advisory Board of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Health Impact of Environmental Hazards, held jointly between King’s College London and Imperial College London, in partnership with Public Health England.

J. Kromhout () Member of IARC Working Group on burden of cancer caused by asbestos

J. Kromhout () Member of IARC Working Group on the evalluation of carcinogenic risks to humans

The Nightingale Study is a large occupational prospective cohort study that started enrollment in the Netherlands in October 2011. On this website you will find more information on the purpose, design and recruitment, and organization of the Nightingale Study as well as publications and opportunities for collaboration.

MOBI-KIDS is an international case-control study which aims to assess the potential associations between use of communication devices and other environmental risk factors and brain tumours in young people. The study is funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement 226873- the MOBI-KIDS Project.

COSMOS; cohort study of mobile phone use and health01.02.2009to01.01.2020

General project description

In the last few years the use of new communication technologies, like mobile phones and wireless internet, has rapidly increased. As these devices make use of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (RF-EMF), human exposure to RF has also increased. There is extensive public and scientific interest in the possibility that RF exposure might increase the risk of disease, as this has yet to be determined.

This international cohort study on mobile phone use and health (COSMOS) is a long term project to investigate possible health effects associated with long term mobile phone use. COSMOS is an international consortium of five European countries (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands) which together will characterize the mobile phone use (through operator traffic records and a self-reported questionnaire) and follow the health of at least 200,000 mobile phone users (over 18 years of age) for 20 to 30 years. Health outcomes to be studied include risk of cancers, benign tumors, neurological and cerebro-vascular diseases, as well as changes in occurrence of specific symptoms over time, such as headache and sleep disorders.

Each of the participating countries launched their own prospective cohort study on mobile phone and EMF related health risks. The COSMOS consortium is there to ensure that all these participating studies use similar protocols to enable pooling of data in the future. Combining data is necessary to address the possible associations between RF exposure and relatively rare diseases such as cancer of the brain.

Completed projects

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SYNERGY; a pooled analysis of case-control studies on the joint effects of occupational carcinogens in the development of lung cancer-01.01.2008to25.01.2016

General project description

The SYNERGY project -a pooled analysis of case-control studies on the joint effects of occupational carcinogens in the development of lung cancer- began in January 2007. The aim of SYNERGY is to study joint effects of occupational lung carcinogens and smoking. As of December 2011, data from 14 case-control studies conducted by renowned research groups in Europe and North America have been pooled. As of December 2011, the SYNERGY project had collected individual lifetime data on occupations and smoking history for >17 700 lung cancer cases and >21 800 control subjects.

The unique aspect of the SYNERGY project is its innovative strategy for assessing occupational exposures. The project currently focuses on exposure to asbestos, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), nickel, chromium and respirable crystalline silica. Quantitative exposure measurements are being collected from large national or industry-specific exposure databases in Europe and Canada. The SYN-JEM, a job-exposure matrix based on these measurements, has now been linked to the epidemiological data.